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In 1908, Münsterberg published his controversial book, On the Witness Stand ( 1908 ) which is a collection of magazine articles previously published by him where he discuses the many different psychological factors that can change a trial's outcome and pointed the way for rational and scientific means for probing the facts claimed by human witnesses by the application of experimental psychology to the administration of law.

He is also credited with being among the first to consider jury research.

He says " The lawyer alone is obdurate.

The lawyer and the judge and the juryman are sure that they do not need the experimental psychologist.

They go on thinking that their legal instinct and their common sense supplies them with all that is needed and somewhat more.

Just in the line of the law it therefore seems necessary not to rely simply on the technical statements of scholarly treatises, but to carry the discussion in the most popular form possible before the wider tribunal of the general reader " cementing his position that while the lawyer, judge, and the jurymen are confident in their abilities, that with the use of experimental psychology he can show just how flawed their thinking can really be .< ref > Green, Christopher.

" On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime.

" Classics in the History of Psychology.

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Web.

15 July 2011.

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